The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 21, 1923, Page 1

LNT on jommission aad GUILTY! AAA AARP PPA APPA DPA PPD AAPA PARADA DP The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington wes Rain and warmer tonight; rain Thursday, Moderate to fresh southwesterly winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours | Maximum, 51. Minimum, 41. Katered as Second Class Matter May 2, 18 jes on the it male, at Ancies for is a vas pector at an elec a month, jenners at Inside con- and six omen at & month ander the Act of Congress March 2, 1879, VOL. 25. No. 231, SEATTLE oF Ww. ‘ASH, WEDNESDAY, NOVE MBER 21, 1923. “Two cents IN SEATTLE. vacances registra. intermit. - | FORD EXCITES WALL STREET BETTING === BIGAMY UPHOL wceto Bet MMMM FORGERY FRAUD | CHARGED CHARGE | | Given Chance to Beat _ Coolidge as Democrat ‘But He Must Get Bourbon Plum If He Goes Far, Say Money Experts (Return Man From Famous Ar Arctic Ex- Alaska; Bride| plorer and Asso- and Seattle Sis-/ ciates Lose Out ter Love Him __ In Court Fight En route South today trom FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. Juneau, Alaska, was Harold | 21—(United Press.) Dr. Fred / Steen, alias Walter T, Harmon, erick Cook and 13. associates who will face a forgery charge aoe 3 in Portland, Ore., as a result of re. found’ gullsy, ine Socom his arrest November 10, follow- court here today of using the ing what the authorities of | mails to defraud in connection Coast cities characterize as a | with the sale of oil stocks. mixture of multitudinous mar- | > riages and financial matters. His eteodants found | Sela latest wife, Mrs. Pearl Steen, | C00k are who was Pearl McGee, of Van- Seymour E. J. Cox, T. O. Turner, couver, B. C., and her sister, |1. A. McKercher, Arthur Ekaman, L 4 of 1320 Howell > 5 > os st, returned’ last Wednesday |‘V: P- Welty, Fred K. Smith, By S¥ when they told their mother, | Henninger, R. L. Maxwell. W. Li Mrs. Maria Dyette, of the Seat- | Bradish, 8. £ | S. L. Hess, G tle address, that they had begun J. &. Rooke to suspect that he “wasn’t just Defendants ‘who: pleaded Sm straight.” seoigs! 3 pieaded | guilty The two girls decided to leave c L.. y 3 o teen for the safety of thelr homes | 4.0.47 ar eisidads ae = and dep 1 eve of 9 ar. = doses mid RS mi penn a eget Pie spa Bleam, George Harvey Currier, Ho due, of account of bad ' Chee ar Be. Robina and J. E. Burmeister, countered by their ship, which left |... tiche; Ante: axons tte November 9. pase y's re ¢ . a Pearl nie has returned to Van. | 2*80Ciates was ranked with the most pees 3 nie woes imageied Bitean fake x widespread prosecutions on charges ; Steen when | wy tes? he swept her off her feet in a three | Stempted he tha noone ene ee or four-hour courtship in Vancouver, |” greaving op ‘evita, the mother - sald. Lillian . was in-| sury and arguments teoke se eee duced to accompany them on a hon-|than tive weeke ee eymoon trip to Alaska, Following ‘ ‘e thelr departure, the evening before sie Geen aM. Be. of atedo, F erase was arrested, Police Inspector ass! heats Fort phy a on a special: $ Swennes of Portland journey to} “S50 ay “og in the Case. Mary Siusser | Alaska to bring his man back to|, APProximately 250 witnesses were fee examined. A huge amount of docu- teen passed himself oft as a | entary evidence was presented, “ex: New Policewoman| booking agent for a theatrical con- | Miblits” totaling nearly 1,009. |cern,” the mother sald Wednesd: The charge against Cook and Isn’t Backward | "since the girls have returned home,| Bis associates was based mainly |we have learned that he ts being on promotion of the Petroleum About Age |brought here on a forgery charge.| Troducers’ association, of whlch Fs | Whether Lillian will be connected] Cook was “president and sole — with a possible bigamy charge, we| ‘ustee.” ‘The evidence involved By S. B. Groff e6\ wbe- naw Several other promotions, includ . Erickson charges Seattle is vice [AtRont CING Mrs, Mary 2: Stus-|. Bteen ts also reported to be wanted| ing the Amalgamated Petroleum or Brown is not enforcing the |1 ser, Seattle's latest policewoman. |in Los Angeles and the police claim beh rad pide bee T { tn s ¢ ic ree ay < estimony show wi laws. The mayor derides him and calls his charges | Newest member of the police force|to have knowledge of several other - i ng She |perhaps, but by no means the most | marriages contracted on this Coast,| Jaunched by Cook and 8. E. J. i BY J\MEXANDER HERMAN EW YORK, Nov. 21.—This is what the big bettors of | Wall Street think of the forthcoming election: President Coal /dge is an odd-on favorite, not only for I. the Republica nomination, but for election—1 to 3 on the nomination, and 1 to 2 on the election. | 2 Ford is the’ only man who is believed to have a + chance of </efeating Coolidge—but he must get the democratic nominyation to do it. The odd against Ford’s getting the democratic nom-| 3. ination ay¢ 4 to 1. 1 But if Pyrd is the democratic nominee, he will be-| 4, come the, odds-on favorite against Coolidge at 2 to 3.) If, however, Ford runs on a third ticket, Ford and 5. wodlidgy will be at even money; with the odds in each case at//2 to 3 against the field, and the democratic) nominee rurwing 5 to 1. Thene viev «hho hot necessarily re. flect the typ iment of Wall Street, but they do reflect ite betth judgm an/ Noleed by Jean De Chadene @ Wall Street broker togothay with his brother Guy, ave handigd some of the largest hn eeotcnive Cie political bela made during the past| view with NEA Servjée for The Star, ten’ years “Sunt #0 Btreet predict the BET $1000 FORD WON'T BE PRESIDENT Many WN. been majo, the largest being a bet $400,660 that Honry Ford will bo tho jnext president. — Lioy ae London has taken the longendofthe| ‘Of all the sources of getting po: by/ issuing two policies of $200,-|litichl information, the betting bar. | 000 infurix & big|omdter is by far the most reliable Westeyn opera! n mil-| For politicians and editors are influ. Now that Baron Rothschild hes lion# in his time, c the ed by their: cwp persdnal likea| ; donated to the British Museum his | 5 short/ end,-by paying the premium of | or, by party: loyalty. “They may form : collection at t some : 335, ‘i tnjslty conglusions by: constantly. as. Seattle We for-| = % OMe héavy Waters are under|sactating with their own politica} ward {ts collection of bedbugs? fe AEE MAAY wenn ondan thos 4s Pensa ste: rage a6) column as | | “ | Howdy, folks! Didya see where Mayor Brown is going to sign the ordinance prohibiting Sun- day dancing? Now if he will only forbid it on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- day, Friday and Satuntay! Mayor Brown says there are no bootlegging joints on First ave. That man must be either a fisherman or| a golfer. eee It 1s no longer possible to throw one's rubbish in vacant lots. They are all occupled by filling stations, According to reports, the grand Jury is now sending out men to pur- chase liquor from bootlegging Joints ® Wonder what qualifications a bird has to have for that job? Our idea of 2 modern young lady Is the 4year-old girl out at Lake Burien who bobbed her dolly’s halr. HOW ABOUT THE ESKIMO? Now that Mexico has been ree- ognized, it is no longer good form to portray the villain of the ; movie film as a “swarthy, treach- | &] erous-looking Greaser.” Guess | they will have to fall back on the fs Russian as being about the only | sme bet left—E. L. Carson. ' eee | f to be the pulse not oniy ness, but natios politics, « to perk up interest in market forecasts said De jon, k market eld A ‘ot futui on the betting jodgment re, om mis. business fraternity arding polit wagers have already Baron Rothschild's collection’ eve Includes a flea from the Arctic seal. | That's nothing. Our collection in- cludes one from a Christmas seal, “It's fine to breathe the alr of a Germany again,” says the ex-crown prince of Germany | Why don't they give him the afr? | | Dave Henderson, superintendent of the street railways, says Seattle's street cars are heated. And he’s shown here AMERICA getting aboard one in front of the County-City building to} T ro it don't ii Rothe sboewer aie, [eee oe sweller frails wid maps that | ours look like a G. N. thme- By John W. Nelson like heating up the town to ut | | | it town, | You wot t these carries. “politics.” I ian Oliver nd that Ms Counci infested “Well, watt —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photorraptiers H6]JEAT? Whaddaye mean, heat?| tempt to he rickson says the mayor is in inexperienced from a practical point | Including two at Sam Francisco, two} COX; the Smackover Petroleum ~ ace I felt hee ron isn’t a cold cow Any:| Then it costs us $300 for eaxh buck.” Meantime, what are the people saying? And [or view. For Mrs. Slusser best in Portland and ons invWanooarer: syndicate, the Vitek Oil & Refin- now on you piny the lone hand and Tm |W the street cars are heat heating plant, It will cost $40, thinking? As the quickest way to get a cross section engaged tn police work for several| -—-- Gee one rere * pe he whi tack the deck. | oy, rout 100 of 6 old type 0 ms 2 . The - ay od 2 lye ook, Co id 21 others were Goonies, ‘Vinegar; uml’ Gate uiet mays |°e ny 9 shy etea a type) 000 for the remaining 100 cfs. of public opinion, The Star today picked at random | Mas. Nits wibane Ahcon Weanatl nated. in the inAlctmele! ton ber" are \ Sevesdiea ake toae aretols thie We will then have an inwest- an “A B C” list out of the telephone directory and |i, stato her age at 38 and tell the| last April. 5 lege oe i nt of nearly $200,000, for asked these people their ¢pinions of the argument. [world she has a daughter No girl will have a snap-shot now| here 200, fies: Pho dps Sone Unless the picture shows street car patrons who| heaters alone. This an{ the Here are the replies: | ‘ . a . |college, and a son be 4 large proportion of her teeth, about cold cars these $18,000 annual heating ccpt will aon a sr OPENED TODAY MAN STRUCK BY phage dss . »| it's heat our car rider~ want, touch with the situa‘jion, but I can most assuredly _ | tective division at police he aerial where te ect, old-fashioned | !tes, uperintendent David w.| ! / rn ; beet A ters | Legal Point T: ke U ere. bias arraprenpocensypt FE of the municipal rait-| ‘hey sure will get it. say that I don’t agree with Brown that he has a moral | ‘PollceW. Be eat ‘he pod : eae 5 2 At last report was down on|Way. Up at Vancouver, Davo says, | | Henderson cars ron eanip.| Police force.” |peared for work’ W rere mare | Morning Session Second ave., wit hair bobbed|Not a single street car is b 4 ‘ areas wean bd . . free A) was’ Gimarad air knt oehio ae A «, : In ped two wee ) alt of these : ing a as assigned to an offi e | and her stockings rolled, trying to|Tacomans also rido in cars. that) DoT ho wo Mee edd ance, | The ICKFIELD, DR. EJANEST L,, Pantages building.— | job | Protabiy tie most tmportant|A€d Worker Hit Early | ee ee et Peer ddiptar int ry ars \fill not be “It’s just’ the same old story to me, Vice is as | Mrs. Slueser was employed by |logal polnt that will arise in the! Wednesday; Driver Booked Hl | al tern teu “ntl thas evalent today——no thore and no less—than it has been | Sheriff John Stringer some years|trial of Dr. W. A. Shannon arose tempted a putsch, |t prevalent todé y—no hore and no less a as e Jago as an investigator, and previous|in Judge J. T. Ronald court Henry Anderson, 73, of 3643 but the government troops staged al r for y past. \t » that time worked fe e Bi Wednesday, soon after the case} Dayton ave, was fatally injured ital and got him in Dutsch—|eqr th * * * |ton department of ju opened. Dr. Shannon 1s charged) early Wednesday when he ¢ Screenlan: ) was mcrae shoe z ; ; fied for a policewoma with the illegal sale of narcotic] struck by an auto at N. 36th ; ; ; : ARTW RIGHT, MARS . W 5018 18th ave. N. bes |year ago thru the city civil service /drugs to Walter Clausen and wife.| st. and Dayton ave. He died 20 \ The world is getti | While Mayor ‘Brown is partly to blame for vice |i t The point at issue involves the} minutes Inter in the Norwegian Angeles oman was gy vorce \these ca ‘ conditions that ursdoubtedly exist, I think he would do Her daughter Bess and son Teddy | pretation of a clause in the| hospital. H. J. O'Keefe, 6556 Natad’ ox: radian the eee ot ca something if the council would co-operate with him. He |Sre Mrs. Slusser's consuming pride. | Reeler narcotic law which defines! Third ava N. W., truck driver Meee “Seattle isn't pid town,” | the F . carries a heavy Yurden alone.” Their Seattle home itvas the Amon|tne privileges of a physician in ad-| for the Associated Oll come est tas gine Henderson says. his heater | ot sant Shi Rieti aay, 2d ARS 7 . AY i er an ig | apartments. ministering drugs under the act.| panies, whose automobile struck . cre | Problem is largely a matter of [eo youn | | The clause says “nothing in this Anderson, was held by the po J. Re Justice hae finished his | Vanity. Many of our ; IXON, EAP{L, Van Siclen apartments. —“I think rt shall prevent the legitimate pre-| Mee during the forenoon. G sevies of articles in The Star.on | open at the rear and it's Just Sa S| Seattle is in the same fix as most other American | Jumped Into Lake cg eae seh Rk gh Akhil et erie pees Biarmasy. porate hues. cities—vice is running too freely. Somebody, surely, is ORS tial’ IntecHeatat ts| O'Keefe said. that Ad Now if someone will only write Man Fred When fa Huai, T done now uae Whole eaponatlemece to Escape Phantom }) ti sina intorpr tion of ths] O'Keefe sald that Anderson wus ex nbout o1 ayors i H meth - - 10 18 5 . cla it was pi il swing | runr across the ca ein STARTS PROBE Mouse Eats the es 8 Minions of Law! }} tho cutcome ot the trial, tut it{did not see the auto until he was | hese id | Paahi id LFORD, /A. S., Ce building—“No man can say may be necessary to take the case | directly In front of it. O'Keete did . ere pice te % i fi |to the state supreme co Jess | Not see Anderson in time to avoid acct actaditsktcin New) Yorke ] eanut Evidence honestly that is not vice-ridden, but the Rie Lig ‘BUCK, who jumped |r Shannon is ecquitted, fam collision. #86 struck ¢va. aan fiagnosing sickness from the pa [dP aerpemesey erm mayor and ‘the city council are merely passing the buck Union, Sunday Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas |heavily, knocking him down and | x 5 Bae mr aide a ie alee wn-c nor between them, with neither doing constructive work.” attempt to drown himself |tends that the word timate” | fracturing his skull. It was dark ‘ a ad eed bad - jee Gee's ete Jara | asta idtietnys fol trokginary bah wie the uses limited and de-|when the accident occurred ‘at 645 handwriting he 1d Grand Jury Summons Men thoug planned | scribed in the law itself. Defense}. m. and O'Keefe had his head- pion! Sieg ie ; ili i iti INLI ¥, DR. J. H., 2802 § d ave. S. Councilman h arrest on bogu J Counsel John F. Do lights burning. The streets were wet a oF ; | Familiar With Conditions Erickson is entirely right in accusing Mayér Brown ¢ in Kansas City, Mo. | Reames mainta |and slippery. The injured man was sh bs - Hong on of running an open town short tour thru certain dis- | t J, elf in a peculiar post- | prescriptions a ear ie the heaoliat was he be wis at cat begged ie is the Srickso sincere ¢ ‘ tion Wednesday, when the police |that the best uses of medical prac-|at 7:05 a. m. O'Keefe then cam | rows at cats pis ern tricts tells the story. Erickson is sincere and “in the ‘“ 1 a wire from Kansas [tice would necessitate and that the|to police headquarters to make his y bid per ee numbe right r ing that he was not | physicians are the best ju eport, after which he was held for | table flcasse 1 ee avert bibs r x when it is vital to use a dru the coroner. | Ta tnty Withark, oo a ahd 1 rooms *ALLAGHER, MRS. JAMES 0., 903 Boylston ave. tives, on the oth- | Anderson was on his way to work bod J —‘There is no doubt that the city needs a vice | ‘f hand. found themselves hold- | aaa the a eniepag ut |ancices: when: fee eae ea yAY, 18 A nEACTIFOL = | sista _ x ing a prisoner who {i hat | velopment during the qualifying of/mont, when he was hit ANYWAY, Ire A mt cleanup. I do not know to whose door the responsibility hela gible tt, bas NO th [ane id. tentative Sartee waa ane-kitt Pus jalide thle year te n Nove for present deplorable conditions should be laid.” bad checks in the \ i me- |titude of the talesmen to policemen t juice room _ * # | tropo! while t noritie as witnesses. ; si ict FosSe 3, 05h atone pisie-ssersy | Wee es Le REE Ti eo sl an | ’ ; ORTON, MRS. JOHN R., 1856 Bradner piace.—“"The | there deny hi ‘Ae Raver gil Pe edo Btn | pret hn OFFERE | : . Bind police department is not doing its duty in enfore- | {y ¥ was final 1 by Judge D ‘ ‘ cheer pp shes tc of ing the law with respect to vice. To what extent this | 1 deel Wednesday nald after she } d TODAY r aot 1 laxity can be laid to the mayor's door I cannot say.’ that’ tt was too T haven't respect forl] Here ts another offer of « heme 4, ted a ge » Pima ery much for him almost sad- | policemen as witness that cara ae ie b | site antaaairae eda oad “ge ppg fs ly, walked out of jail a free ‘The jury was beir A trom |} nae Behe r as/ VEY, EDWIN J., 2191 46th ave. S. W.—"It is my opin- | man. ‘Ho said he wan constant: [a special’ panel. of. 60. ventremen || want Ada | @ :: j sell r ion that Mayor Brown is clean and sincere in his | ty in terror of arrest, which so {who were drawn t ial order of |] (NEW §-ROOM i AS a; Jo statements. He would do more to improve unsatisfac- | undermined — hi ath and Judge F E late | - F cil tory conditions if the council would co-operate with him | ‘ nd | da | Seip], Chancellor lets , ‘on properly.” | . NTSION TO) ‘ealuialsh . chote He ¢ nvye * * * vice bt ow, on of Austria, Quits Co, /and| OKLAHOMA cITY—Horm drawn] TONES, WILI/J., White building.—“Conditions are at | ne would ko vg ; 1 today, His cabinet pur be- | flo. ordina revisions} tnink they worse.” | r guard to Kan- I|day by a delegation of $ property. | in office temporarily, t } here } (Turn to Page 10, Column 1) dents. ; ae “ 1 Pi